Easter Dress 2015

Pattern: New Look 6205 size 8, sleeves on view A/B

Fabric: Flower Sugar Maison oxford cloth by Lecien 

Pink ribbon from Jo Ann's

Added a skirt lining with tulle layers around the bottom half for more fullness

Inspiration for fabric from KinderKoutureClothing

I thought we'd get out for some better pictures, but never did so here's what I have.

a cropped picture of my mom with the kids shows a little better how the skirt hangs.

Kyoko in Blossom

 

For K*’s Easter dress this year, I used some fabric I’ve had in my stash for a few years and ModKid’s Kyoko pattern.

A pattern I’ve had for several years and am just now getting around to making.  Why did I wait so long!  I LOVE it!!  I think I’ll try and make a top for K* soon.

The main fabric is Blossom from Annette Tatum’s Little House Collection for Free Spirit.  The solid pink fabrics and ribbon are from JoAnn’s.  I made a size 7, K* is 8 1/2.

Changes I made:

The skirt is a little fuller than the pattern calls for, basically two widths of fabric and an inch or two longer.

The sleeves are shorter.

I lined both the bodice and skirt and attached some tulle to the skirt lining to add to the fullness {and twirling fun}.

The ribbon ties are also longer.

 

This picture is actually an iPhone pic from Easter day.

 

We’ve been super busy after school each day since I finished it, so I finally just took a few pictures quickly after church today {Mother’s Day}, nothing fancy like the birthday party dress, and called it good.

 

This iPhone picture is from the day I finished it. The dress was done on Friday before Easter.  Saturday morning I finished the sash, so this was the first look at it all done on K*.  It was the day before Easter, but somehow since the sash was all I had to sew that morning, I felt like it wasn’t the last minute like many projects end up being.

 

 

easter bags

Every Easter, I always wish my kids had big easter bags for egg hunts. Baskets just don't work well, especially in big groups of scrambling kids.  So this year, the night before an Easter egg hunt at a church near here, I busted out some cute bags.  They certainly aren't perfect, but I guess I think they're kinda cute.  I can't believe I've lived my life without getting into applique!  It's so fun and relatively easy for a big impact.  :)

Best part of this project:  FREE!  I made these from supplies in my stash ... bags made from curtains I trimmed and hemmed, the rest of the scraps are just from the endless pile! :)

Easter Banner

Easter banner made by my mom.

It's so happy, bright and colorful! 

If I weren't trying to figure out an Easter dress for K* I might have made one for myself.

Easter Treats & Crafts

 Rice krispie treat eggs with m&m's in the middle and chow mein & chocolate bird nests with chocolate eggs.

S* was particularly excited when he realized that when he was done helping me, he would get to lick all the chocolate off off his hands.  I wanted to make some with butterscotch chips too, but I didn't have any on hand.  I mixed 12 oz of noodles with 12 oz of melted chocolate, using about 1/4 cup per nest.

After making treats, we colored Easter eggs.

K* wasn't feeling her best, so she made two rice krispie treat eggs and two bird nests.

Thread wrapped eggs. 

Yes, I have the patience/personality where I can sit and wrap thread around and around Styrofoam eggs.  I'm not sure what that says about me.  I only made three, the plan was for more (green & blue too) but I decided to make a tee pee for the kids instead.  It kind of takes some time to wrap all that the thread around.  And it actually takes quite a bit of thread.  I used  about 2 1/2 things of pearl cotton thread on the "golden" egg.  The pruple one used 1+ and the pink egg not quite 1.  Each thing of thread has about 27 yards.  Maybe I'll get the rest done for next year.

Idea from Martha Stewart, I saw it last year and just didn't get to it.

"Chocolate bunnies" on wooden blocks.

Another idea I saw last year and didn't get to until this year.

The bunnies are brown vinyl.

There were plenty of other Easter and other Spring crafts I didn't get too, maybe next year....

  Some of them I pinned here.

Yellow Sunshine Skirt

I'm calling this the yellow sunshine skirt.

I love it, it's just so happy.  My bathroom is a happy, sunny yellow too.

The fabric is Sunkissed by Sweetwater for Moda. I love that fabric line and have more of it in my stash.

I used the PinkFig Girly Stripwork skirt pattern; it is probably the fullest skirt I've made for K*.  Definitelyy twirly.

I bought the fabric last Spring and I got around to it finally in January, mainly because I wanted to use my new serger.  It has a lot of seams to serge between the strips, making it the perfect first project to try out my new serger.  But then, I couldn't decide how to finish the bottom so I set aside for almost two months.  Just a yellow or yellow print strip wasn't working for me.  And white alone wasn't either.  So, I ended up using the same solid yellow as the waistband and white 1 3/4"  lace.

 

 

 

And look at this super cute wooden chick my mom is working on.

The wooden chick is from the wood connection and the paper is from a paper pack called Sweet.

For April Fool's Day today, I got the kids at breakfast.  Last night, I poured some milk and cheerios into two bowls and put them in the freezer.  Before breakfast I pulled them out & added a little bit of unfrozen milk & cheerios on the top of the frozen stuff.  After the prayer, the kids went to dig their spoons into their cereal and couldn't.  Nothing incredibly fancy, but S* said it was, "the best April Fool's ever!"  And that may also be because I've never done something fun like that to them before.

I got the idea from the book The Happiness Project that I read in January.

Too bad I didn't snap a photo.

Bunny Tee & Skirt

My SIL made K* a cute bunny applique tee with her new embroidery machine for Easter this year.  And so, I made a skirt to match.  The light purple fabric has sweet little, purple flowers with yellow centers.  I bought it at Jo Ann's.  I may add some ribbon to the skirt or bunny later, I just can't decide.  I was thinking yellow, but the yellow ribbon I have is a tad brighter than I want, so I might go with purple.  Or just leave it and move on to the many other projects I have going/planned.

She also made her daughters cute skirts and tees.

Easter Dress: McCall's 5793

This is the Easter dress I made for K* this year. It's the first time I've sewn her a pretty church or holiday dress. I used McCall's pattern 5793 view D. The fabric is Simply Baby #30377 by Windham fabrics. I bought it last year, it's so sweet and almost screams SPRING! I bought 12 inch tulle on ebay and used two layers of it, rather than cutting out several pieces of tulle and folding those in half like it calls for in the instructions. Made it easier in my opinion. I also changed the sleeves. I made them about an inch or so shorter (I would probably make them even a bit more shorter if I were to make this dress again) and put a band on the sleeve bottom instead of elastic. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Add a puffy half slip and a cute, little girl and it's even better.

Bunny Tee

This is a tee shirt I made around Easter for K* using freezer paper and a cute, bunny shape I cut out on my silhouette. After cutting the shape out of the freezer paper, you iron it onto the shirt and use fabric paint. It was my first time making one, and I either didn't iron it down enough or used too much paint because the paint bled under the freezer paper a little, but it turned out pretty good I think. Once you decide on a shape(s) and paint and have a tee shirt, it's a fairly simple project. Slowest part is waiting for the paint to dry. Maybe I'll let the kids make a "supervised" one over the summer.

I used freezer paper stencil posts from make it and love it to figure out what I was doing. Always lots of great stuff on her blog.

Silhouette shape: bunny rabbit_C00164_19547